Shouldn't be too hard to throw together a bash script that reruns LILO
for each MBR, with different parameters, I wouldn't think... Anyone
disagree?
--
Jeremy Stanley Trend CMHS
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> ----------
> From: Andy Poling[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 4:30 PM
> To: Stanley, Jeremy
> Subject: RE: Booting Root RAID 1 Directly _Is_ Possible
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Stanley, Jeremy wrote:
> > This does open RAID-5 systems up for a full-redundancy solution with
> > little loss in capacity... Allocate the first 5 or 10MB on each
> drive
> > in your array for /boot as an n-way RAID-1 mirror and write LILO to
> the
> > MBR of each. Then configure the remainder of each drive for RAID-5,
> and
> > with this technique you only lose 5(n-1) or 10(n-1)MB from your
> array
> > for boot redundancy.
> [...]
> > Anyone see any reason why this might not be quite so
> > straightforward a solution? Just my half-nybble...
>
> It makes sense. Basically, instead of individual /boot partitions
> (the
> previous best method), you're just RAID-1-ing them together. That has
> the
> advantage of automatically keeping your /boot partitions synchronized
> with
> no effort for you.
>
> Though, with lilo, you'd have to run it with a different lilo.conf for
> each
> disk every time you install a new kernel. With grub, you just isntall
> the
> new kernel and it just works... on all the disks.
>
> Not trying to sound like a grub cheerleader, or a broken record... :-)
> I
> just think it's an easier solution (in the ongoing use sense) now that
> I've
> figured out how it works.
>
> -Andy
>
